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"It's not a game" - no, but for the people calling in hoaxes, it can very well be. The administration can't choose to stop responding. But the cost of committing such a hoax is effectively zero - what's to stop the hoaxer from calling in each day?

How do other police handle high volumes of hoax calls that aren't traceable (i.e., aren't 911)?

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Abusing the TTY relay intended for the deaf is pretty much only as traceable as an IP address, even if calling 911.

From a past example at the University of Pittsburgh[1], the result is simply a campus-wide lockdown and increasingly strenuous security requirements for those caught in between the hoaxer and their target.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_University_of_Pittsburgh_b...

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